Norwegian Major Awards Offshore Service Contracts Worth €168mn

Norwegian major Statoil has announced that it has awarded contracts worth Nkr1.6bn (€167.8mn) for marine and engineering services on the Oseberg Vestflanken 2, Johan Sverdrup and Gina Krog fields.

In a statement released on its website February 3, Statoil said the contracts were awarded on behalf of the fields' licence partners. The contracts include marine operations, marine construction, as well as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of an unmanned wellhead platform and modifications at the Oseberg Field Centre.

The providers who have been awarded contracts include Technip, awarded an Nkr400mn contract for pipe laying at Johan Sverdrup and Oseberg Vestflanken 2; Hereema Fabrication Group, which has been awarded a contract worth Nkr900mn for EPC of the unmanned wellhead platform at Oseberg Vestflanken 2; Ocean Installer, which takes Nkr200mn in contracts for marine construction and installation at Oseberg Vestflanken 2, Johan Sverdrup and Gina Krog; and Aibel, which has been awarded an Nkr200mn contract for engineering, procurement, construction and installation on the Oseberg Field Centre, to prepare the platform for receiving the well stream from Oseberg Vestflanken 2.

In the statement, Statoil's senior vice president for project development, Torger Rød, said that all of the companies awarded contracts had a proven track record with the company.

 Erica Mills